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CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS: KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION • The word “information” refers to a collection of “data” about a specific topic. • The compiler of “information” decides what data to put together. • Criteria for compilation of “data” into “information” are arbitrary. • A piece of “<strong>Information</strong>” becomes “knowledge” when it is incorporated and related with other pieces of information leading someone to an opinion or a perspective. • “<strong>Information</strong>” does not become “knowledge” until it is processed in within a person’s consciousness. 4
CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS: KNOWLEDGE AS PROCESSED INFORMATION • “Knowing” means interpreting the “information” which someone has received through the senses or through other channels. • Deriving “knowledge” from “information” is a cultural process. • Knowledge accumulation is a cultural process, consisting of cognitive, affective and practical functions. • The ability to accumulate knowledge has to be cultivated in the process of upbringing of children. • The nurture of children determines how they process information into knowledge. • The information to which children are exposed determines the kind of knowledge they begin to accumulate, and the attitudes they develop as they grow up. • Parenthood includes the responsibility to provide an environment for the offspring to develop conceptual tools for the processing of information into knowledge. • The State has interest in the way parents bring up their children. Hence the interest of states in the character formation of youth. 5
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Page 9 and 10: TELEVISION CONTENT • Daily After
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Page 19 and 20: DISTINCTION BETWEEN EQUALITY AND EQ
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